The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A New System of English Grammar

Phoenix, John. "A New System of English Grammar." New York Saturday Press, September 23, 1865, 115-116.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
essay
Abstract

Fed up with the banal adjectives that give us little basis on people's actual condition or description, Phoenix proposes we merely use a scale of 1-100 to describe any particular state.